Disgust arose because in our ancestral environment, there things that were poisonos, mushrooms, or rotting food. And disgust is associated with getting rid of things. When i think about what pasture i take to michael's house, it's not what's the quickest, it's what's the best lit or the safest and so on. So all the sensry input that i get, the the changes, the gulls change, and the things that cross my mind that affect my thinking are selected by your unconscious mind.
xtraordinary advances in psychology and neuroscience have proven that emotions are as critical to our well-being as thinking. In this conversation, Shermer and Mlodinow explore the new science of feelings.
Journeying from the labs of pioneering scientists to real-world scenarios that have flirted with disaster, Mlodinow shows us how our emotions can help, why they sometimes hurt, and what we can learn in both instances.
Shermer and Mlodinow discuss: the difference between emotions and feelings/moods/drives/passions; how the scientific understanding of emotions has changed; thought vs. feeling; system 1 vs. system 2 cognition; mind-body connection: how does our physical state influence what we think & feel?; the neuroscience of emotions: how the brain constructs emotions; Lisa Feldman Barrett challenge to Paul Ekman’s theory of universal emotions; Schachter-Singer theory of emotion; the effects of social context on emotions; and more…